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Guest Post by James Wolfinger: A Tale of Two Levittowns
Today we welcome a guest post from James Wolfinger, author of Philadelphia Divided: Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love. Here, Wolfinger sheds light on the rocky beginnings of the Levittown in Bucks County outside of Philadelphia, which was fraught with racial tension and forced segregation by Bill Levitt himself, even years after its 1951 opening. But seven years later across the Delaware, a very different story emerged from the Levittown in Burlington County, NJ. Wolfinger tells of one family's courage in the continuous fight against discrimination within a community that was supposed...
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